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Sep 01, 1950 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Died on 23 Jan 1998 (aged 47)
Australian poet
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About John Forbes Poet
- John Forbes (1 September 1950 – 23 January 1998) was an Australian poet. Forbes was born in Melbourne, but during his childhood his family lived in northern Queensland, Malaya and New Guinea.
- He went to Sydney University, and his circle of friends included the poets Robert Adamson, Martin Johnston, and John Tranter.
- It was at this time that the work of the American poets Ted Berrigan, John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara made a strong and lasting impression on him. He returned to live in Melbourne in the late 1980s, where he became the poetry editor of Scripsi.
- His friends around this time included the poets Gig Ryan, Laurie Duggan and Alan Wearne. Forbes died in Melbourne of a heart attack, aged 47.
